Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF
by innagadadavida on Monday December 04, 2017 @12:36PM
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Patents help pay for research and keeps a lot of smart and hard working tech people employed. Stop bad mouthing it as though you are losing one of your God given rights. There are surely issues with greedy companies doing greedy things with it. But then there are issues with everything... like greedy Ad companies selling your profiles and collecting more data in the name of AI.
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Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF
by ntaylor on Monday December 04, 2017 @12:43PM
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> Patents help pay for research and keeps a lot of smart and hard working tech people employed.
Maybe when used correctly. In the tech space, it seems like they hardly are, anymore.
Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF
by tedmielczarek on Monday December 04, 2017 @01:28PM
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Software patents are bad and should be abolished.
Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF
by erik_seaberg on Monday December 04, 2017 @03:53PM
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A good patent brings us a more competitive solution to a problem than we otherwise would have had. A bad patent is a land grab, a punitive unearned tax on the entire problem, and those have been getting worse.
Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF
by ksec on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @10:06AM
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Not sure why you are downvoted, ( may be because of the tone and languages used ). But people from the academics, and companies do spend a lot of money on R&D in video encoding. These patents are not those silly one click web purchase patents, there are lots of thoughts, experiment into it. I would have thought anyone who has been to Uni / College would know this, after all it is part of how University gets funding these days.
The problem is price. What should these patents cost.